Buckingham's Midway firefighters testified Thursday that Claire Risoldi and her family falsely accused the squad of stealing millions in jewelry during an October 2013 fire at the family's township mansion.

The fire was the third in five years at Clairemont, and a few of the volunteers told a Bucks County District Court judge there had been no mention of jewelry until two months after the fire, when the Risoldis leveled the accusations.

The testimony marked the fourth day of a preliminary hearing for Risoldi, three members of her immediate family and two alleged co-conspirators. The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office says the six defrauded insurer AIG of more than $20 million related to the three fires at the mansion.

Claire Risoldi, 67; daughter, Carla, 48; son Carl, 43; and his wife, Sheila, 44; are charged with more than a dozen felonies, including corrupt organizations, filing false insurance claims, intimidation and theft by deception. Named as co-conspirators in the fraud are detective Mark Goldman, 54, of Wayne, and fabric vendor Richard Holston, 51, of Medford Lakes, New Jersey.

Though charged with multiple crimes related to the fires, the six defendants are not charged with arson. Additionally, arson was not established by independent fire investigators or Buckingham's fire marshal, who ruled the cause of each fire as "undetermined."

Firefighter David Hathaway said the theft accusation against Midway was a first for the 84-year-old company.

In fact, typically firefighters are retrieving valuables, he said in court, adding it's routine for family members to request to go inside to retrieve valuables.

"It would have been very easy to do that day, but no one asked me to do that," recalled Hathaway, who has been asked in the past to retrieve items such as wallets, purses, wedding albums and medications.

Hathaway, staged by the front door during the October 2013 fire, said he did not notice jewelry in the house, but admitted he wasn't looking for it. He also said he didn't see firefighters leaving with any boxes, bags or jewelry.

"I didn't see anyone coming out with anything they should not have come out with," Hathaway testified.

Defense attorneys argued that the firefighters couldn't keep track of how long they had been in the mansion.

Buckingham Police Lt. J.R. Landis testified he took Claire Risoldi by the arm during the fire and warned her to stay clear of firefighters, who were sensitive to the fact that they had been at her home for a fire for the third time in a few years.

"I said, 'Either you're the most unlucky person in the world, someone is out to get you or you have an arson problem,'" Landis testified. "She needed to understand she had three fires in a very short period of time; if she was going to deal with these people, she needed to be ready to answer questions to these facts."

In the presentment, some grand jury witnesses also chronicled what the attorney general's office called a "campaign of intimidation," saying Claire Risoldi tried to intimidate or influence people, including mural painters, insurance adjusters and a local attorney. From curtains to Romanesque murals painted on the ceiling of the family's mansion, Claire Risoldi and her two children worked to inflate the prices of materials and services so she could collect more on her insurance claims following the fires at Clairemont, prosecutors say.

Louis Gomez, an agent with the attorney general's office, told the court Thursday that Claire Risoldi pleaded with him not to open an investigation about the alleged jewelry theft.

Gomez recalled an April 2014 interview with Claire Risoldi, during which he said she told him: "The jewelry is already gone, everybody in Buckingham hates me. When I walk down the street, they say, 'There's the bitch who said firefighters stole her jewelry.'"

Claire Risoldi accused Gomez and an FBI agent also present during the interview of being "Democrats, here to destroy me," Gomez testified. "She said she knew Tom Corbett and threw around some other names I didn't know."

In a break in the testimony, Claire Risoldi was overheard telling one of her attorneys, "This is very upsetting. They're making me look like a criminal and I'm not."

Testimony resumes Monday before District Judge C. Robert Roth of Quakertown, who will determine whether the criminal charges should be held for trial.